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The expenditure on. the school for the last two financial years respectively was as follows:— Last Financial Year. Proceeding Year. 1913-14. 1912-13. £ £ Salaries .. .. .. .. .. 3,574 3,486 Maintenance of pupils and sundry expenses .. 1,796 1,832 Maintenance of buildings and water charges .. 216 460 Additional buildings .. .. ..1,553 2,797 7,139 8,575 Less — Amount collected from parents by way of maintenance contributions .. 1,173 1,034 Amount collected from Charitable Aid Boards .. .. .. 1,210 1,197 Sundry other recoveries .. .. 1 5 2,384 2,236 Net expenditure .. .. .. .. £4,755* £6,339* * Including for 1912-13 £225 and for last year £274, paid from national endowment revenue. Jubilee Institute for the Blind, Auckland. This institution is governed by a Board of Trustees, four of whom are appointed by the Government and the remaining five elected by the subscribers to the funds of the Institute. As the Institute comes within the scope of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, subsidy at the rate of 245. in the pound is payable by the Government on voluntary contributions received by the Board, and 10s. in the pound on the value of bequests. The amount paid by the Government towards the cost of training twenty-nine pupils was £767, and the amount refunded to the Government during the year by parents and Charitable Aid Boards was £731, the Boards paying £402. The sum payable by the Government as subsidy to the Board of Trustees under the provisions of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act was £2,164 Is. Id. Special School for the Feeble-minded, Otekaike. Numbers as at 31st December, 1913: — M. ¥. In residence .. .. .. .. .. 69 Boarded out ... .. .. .. .. .. 4 Total of both sexes .. .. .. .. .. 73 Of the above number under control ten were over twenty-one years of age. The procedure in regard to the retention of control beyond that age is similar to that already described in respect of inmates of industrial schools. 1912-13. 1913-14. £ £ Salaries .. .. .. .. .. 2,127 2,471 Maintenance of pupils .. .. ... 2,119 2,426 Maintenance of buildings .. .. *■ .. 524 315 Farm and stock ...... .. 485 270 Additional buildings, furniture, &c. .. .. 160 121 5,415 5,603 Less — Amount collected from parents by way of maintenance contributions .. 862 777 Amount collected from Charitable Aid Boards .. .. ..810 857 Sundry other recoveries .. .. 207 83 1,879 1,717 Net expenditure .. .. .. .. £3,536* £3,886*

* Including for 1912-13 £225, and for last year £274 from national endowment revenue.